So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~ Orson Scott Card

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ~ James Michener

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~ Anais Nin

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~ Ray Bradbury

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~ Elmore Leonard

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ~ Brenda Ueland

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down. ~ Kaari Utrio

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. ~ Emile Zola

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves. ~ Anonymous

May I never grow to old to treasure 'once upon a time'. ~ Anonymous

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

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